Teale, your mental health companion at work, raises $11 million
French startup Teale has secured a funding round of $11 million earlier this summer (€10 million). The company provides a mental health platform for employees and helps HR managers when it comes to preventing burnout or quiet quitting. Alter Equity and Bpifrance’s Digital Venture fund are leading the Series A
Read moreFeds investigate Tesla’s use of funds for secret ‘glass house’ project
Manhattan federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission are separately investigating the use of Tesla funds to bankroll a secret project that is described internally as a glass house for CEO Elon Musk, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal that cites people familiar with the matter.
Read moreGoogle’s AI-powered search expands outside U.S. to India and Japan
Google is bringing its generative AI search experience to the first countries outside the U.S., the company announced today, starting with expansions in India and Japan. The new AI-powered search feature, also known as SGE (Search Generative Experience), will become available through Google’s Search Labs in those markets, and will
Read moreTechCrunch interview: ‘Palo Alto’ author Malcolm Harris
"I feel like if we know Elon Musk’s name in a hundred years, that's a very, very bad sign."
Read moreHow a Rubber Duck Can Solve (Almost) Anything
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Read moreGenerative AI startup AI21 Labs lands $155M at a $1.4B valuation
AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing a range of text-generating AI tools, has raised $155 million in a Series C funding round led by Walden Catalyst, Pitango, SCB10X, b2venture, Samsung Next and Amnon Shashua, the founder of Intel-owned Mobileye and an AI21 Labs co-founder. Google and Nvidia also participated.
Read moreThat 30-slide deck won’t cut it anymore
Founders are ditching the narratives around purpose, problem and solutions.
Read moreSubstack introduces new AI-powered audio transcription tools
Substack is introducing new AI-powered tools that are designed to make podcasting on the platform easier, the company announced on Wednesday. With these new tools, users can easily generate transcripts and audiograms. Users can now use an AI tool to create a transcript of their podcast episode or narration in
Read moreThe New York subway’s ride tracker has a scary security loophole
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge New York’s OMNY subway pass system is supposed to make the lives of its riders easier, but as a 404 Media investigation highlights, it makes tracking your movement a little bit too easy — posing dangers for anyone at risk of stalking
Read moreScreenly makes it easier to build interactive apps for its digital signage platform
Screenly has long offered developers ways to build applications for the kiosks and checkout systems that use its Screenly Box hardware (or a Raspberry Pi, for the DIY crowd). Its customers include the likes of Amazon, NASA and Lowe’s. Today, it’s taking a next step in making it easier for
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